زنبیل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic زَبِّيل (zabbīl, “frail, basket”).

Noun

زنبیل • (zembil) (plural زنابیل)

1. basket, especially one woven of rushes or palm-leaves

   Synonym: سپت (sepet)

Derived terms

• زنبیلجك (zembilcik, “small basket”)
• زنبیلجی (zembilci, “maker or seller of baskets”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: zembil
• → Albanian: zymbyle
• → Armenian: զեմպիլ (zempil)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zembil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5452
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زنبیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 648
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corbis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 287
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زنبیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2470
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zembil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زنبیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1015